scholarly journals The genus Pseudoraphis (Poaceae) in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Paweena Wessapak ◽  
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Chatchai Ngernsaengsaruay ◽  

A taxonomic study of the genus Pseudoraphis in Thailand was conducted. Four species, P. balansae, P. brunoniana, P. minuta and P. spinescens are reported. This genus is distributed in the Northern, Eastern, Central, South-Eastern, and Peninsular floristic regions of Thailand. All the species are aquatic or semi-aquatic, found in swampy places, marshes, lakes, paddy fields, ditches, moats and on sandy soils from sea level to 300 m. Morphological descriptions, distribution data, and ecological information are provided. All species are illustrated and a key to the species, based on morphological characters, is provided.

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 970 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Seung Jin Roh ◽  
Haechul Park ◽  
Seong-Hyun Kim ◽  
So-Yun Kim ◽  
Yong-Su Choi ◽  
...  

The greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella Linnaeus, is well known as a pest of honey bees and for the biodegradation of wax and polyethylene by their larvae. The genus Galleria has long been considered monotypic and found worldwide. A taxonomic study of the genus Galleria is presented based on morphological and molecular characters (COI, CAD, wg). A new species (Galleria similis Roh & Song, sp. nov.) is recognized on the Korean peninsula. The new species is superficially similar to G. mellonella but they can be separated by the structures of hindwing venation and male genitalia. Habitus photographs and illustrations of diagnostic characters are provided.


Abdi Seni ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Sri Wuryani

AbstrakDesa Campursari salah satu desa di Kecamatan Bulu, Temanggung  Kabupaten Temanggung, Provinsi Jawa Tengah. Secara geografis, Desa Campursari terletak di kaki gunung Sumbing pada ketinggian 1.040 m dpl, berjarak 1 km dari ibukota Kecamatan Bulu dan 9 km dari Ibukota Kabupaten. Desa Campursari terbagi atas lahan sawah dan bukan sawah.Lahan sawah dipergunakan ladang/tegalan/huma, perkebunan rakyat dan lain-lain.Letak desa sedemikian memberikan sumber daya alam yang berlimpah.Hasil perkebunan merupakan  penunjang  ekonomi  warga,  diantaranya  perkebunan  tembakau  yang  menjadi primadona.Kesibukan warga pada masa panen tembakau, antara bulan Juli, Agustus dan September.Diluar bulan-bulan tersebut banyak waktu luang, terutama bagi ibu-ibu. Mengisi waktu luang inilah mereka ingin mengisi dengan  menambah pengetahuan tentang batik yang selama ini sudah dirintis di dusun Dalangan Desa Campursari,  Kegiatan tersebut diwadahi dalam kelompok yang diberi nama Batik Plengkung. Permasalahan kelompok batik plengkung kualitas  kain batik yang kurang baik warna tidak rata dan proses pewarnaan yang kurang praktis. Tujuan pelatihan menambah ketrampilan dan wawasan tentang batik, memberikan motivasi untuk lebih mencintai batik kepada warga desa Campursari, terutama peserta pelatihan. Hasil pelatihan diharapkan dapat meningkatkan jumlah produksi dan kualitasnya, memunculkan perajin-peraji baru sebagai pencipta lapangan pekerjaan, dan  kesejahteraan warga meningkat. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah pelatihan dan pendampingan tentang teknik mewarna dengan bahan warna sintetis. Hasil pelatihan, peserta akanbertambah pengetahuannya tentang jenis bahan pewarna sintetis dan teknik penggunaannya, karya hasil pelatihan.Kata kunci: pelatihan, batik plengkung, warna sintetis. AbstractCampursari  is  one  of  the  villages  in  Bulu  District,  Temanggung,  Central  Java  Province. Geographically, Campursari Village is located at the foot of Mountain Sumbing at an altitude of 1,040 m above sea level, located 1 km from the capital of Bulu District and 9 km from the Capital District. Campursari village is composed  into paddy fields and not paddy fields. Paddy fields are used as fields / dry fields / huma, community plantations and others. The location of such villages provides abundant natural resources. The results of plantations are economic support for residents, including  tobacco  plantations  that  are  excellent.  Residents  are  busy  at  the  time  of  the  tobacco harvest,  between  July, August  and  September.  Outside these  months  there  is  plenty of  free  time, especially for mothers. This free time they want to fill by adding knowledge about batik that had been pioneered in the Dalangan hamlet in Campursari village, the activity was accommodated in a group named Batik Plengkung. The problem with the Plengkung batik group is that the quality of batik cloth is not good, the colors are uneven and the coloring process is not practical. The aim of the training is to add skills and insights about batik, to provide motivation to love batik more to Campursari villagers, especially the trainees. The results of the training are expected to increase the amount of production and quality, bring new craftsmen as job creators, and improve the welfare of citizens. The method used in this activity is training and mentoring on coloring techniques with synthetic  color materials.  The  results  of the  training,  participants  will increase  their  knowledge about the types of synthetic dyes and their use techniques, the results of the training.Keywords: training, batik Plengkung, synthetic colors.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadranka Sepic ◽  
Mira Pasaric ◽  
Iva Medugorac ◽  
Ivica Vilibic ◽  
Maja Karlovic ◽  
...  

<p>The northern and the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea are occasionally affected by extreme sea-levels known to cause substantial material damage. These extremes appear due to the superposition of several ocean processes that occur at different periods, have different spatial extents, and are caused by distinct forcing mechanisms.</p><p>To better understand the extremes, hourly sea-level time series from six tide-gauge stations located along the northern and the eastern Adriatic coast (Venice, Trieste, Rovinj, Bakar, Split, Dubrovnik) were collected for the period of 1956 to 2015 (1984 to 2015 for Venice) and analysed. The time series have been checked for spurious data, and then decomposed using tidal analysis and filtering procedures. The following time series were thus obtained for each station: (1) trend; (2) seasonal signal; (3) tides; (4-7) sea-level oscillations at periods: (4) longer than 100 days, (5) from 10 to 100 days, (6) from 6 hours to 10 days, and (7) shorter than 6 hours. These bands correspond, respectively, to sea-level fluctuations dominantly forced by (but not restricted to): (1) climate change and land uplift and sinking; (2) seasonal changes; (3) tidal forcing; (4); quasi-stationary atmospheric and ocean circulation and climate variability patterns; (5) planetary atmospheric waves; (6) synoptic atmospheric processes; and (7) mesoscale atmospheric processes.</p><p>Positive sea-level extremes surpassing 99.95 and 99.99 percentile values, and negative sea-level extremes lower than 0.05 and 0.01 percentile values were extracted from the original time series for each station. It was shown that positive (negative) extremes are up to 50-100% higher (lower) in the northern than in the south-eastern Adriatic. Then, station-based distributions, return periods, seasonal distributions, event durations, and trends were estimated and assessed. It was shown that the northern Adriatic positive sea-level extremes are dominantly caused by synoptic atmospheric processes superimposed to positive tide (contributing jointly to ~70% of total extreme height), whereas more to the south-east, positive extremes are caused by planetary atmospheric waves, synoptic atmospheric processes, and tides (each contributing with an average of ~25%). As for the negative sea-level extremes, these are due to a combination of planetary atmospheric waves and tides: in the northern Adriatic tide provides the largest contribution (~60%) while in the south-eastern Adriatic the two processes are of similar impact (each contributing with an average of ~30%). The simultaneity of the events along the entire northern and eastern Adriatic coast was studied as well, revealing that positive extremes are strongly regional dependant, i.e. that they usually appear simultaneously only along one part of the coast, whereas negative extremes are more likely to appear along the entire coast at the same time.</p><p>Finally, it is suggested that the distribution of sea-level extremes along the south-eastern Adriatic coast can be explained as a superposition of tidal forcing and prevailing atmospheric processes, whereas for the northern Adriatic, strong topographic enhancement of sea-level extremes is also important.</p>


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4995 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
LUCIANO DIOTTI ◽  
ROBERTO CALDARA ◽  
IVO TOŠEVSKI

Two new species of the weevil genus Rhamphus from Italy are herein described: R. bavierai n. sp. (Sicily) and R. hampsicora n. sp. (Sardinia). Both are morphologically and from a molecular perspective close to R. oxyacanthae (Marsham, 1802) and R. monzinii Pesarini & Diotti, 2012. Aside from a diagnostic description and a synoptic key, distribution data and notes on the host plants of the four species are reported. Whereas R. monzinii can be distinguished by several morphological characters, the other three species are morphologically very similar to each other and separable only by the combination of a few subtle characters. On the contrary, a preliminary molecular study revealed substantial divergences of mtCOI from 6.2 to 14.9% between the species, confirming the importance of an integrative taxonomy.  


Jurnal BIOMA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Rina Trihandayani Putri ◽  
Rugayah Rugayah ◽  
Agung Sedayu

ABSTRACT A taxonomic study of the genus Artabotrys R. Br. (Annonaceae) in Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands was conducted based on morphological characters. The objective of this study is to determine the diversity, describe and make determination key of Artabotrys which found in Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands. The method used in this study is descriptive. This study was conducted on May-June 2015 in the collection room wing B 2nd floor, type room, and Laboratory of Biosystematic Herbarium Bogoriense - Bidang Botani Puslit Biologi LIPI, Cibinong, Bogor, West Java. The result showed that there are three species of Artabotrys in Java and Lesser Sunda Islands. Artabotrys species found in Java, namely A. hexapetalus, A. suaveolens and A. sumatranus, while the species of the Lesser Sunda Islands only A. hexapetalus. Phenetic analysis shows that the species of Artabotrys in Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands are divided into two subgroups. Determination key and descriptions also provided to identify the species of Artabotrys in Java and Lesser Sunda Islands. Artabotrys natural habitat is lowland forest but now lowland forests decreased. This can lead to biodiversity (including Artabotrys) to be reduced, so that conservation need to be done (conservation both on Artabotrys and lowland forest).   Keywords : Artabotrys, Annonaceae, diversity, determination key, Lesser Sunda Islands


2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt A. M. Renner ◽  
Nicolas Devos ◽  
Elizabeth A. Brown ◽  
Matt J. von Konrat

The current paper presents molecular data from three chloroplast markers (atpB–rbcL spacer, trnG G2 intron, trnL–trnF intron and spacer); morphological data, and geographic data to support the recognition of nine species belonging to Radula subg. Odontoradula in Australasia. R. ocellata, the subgeneric type from the Wet Tropics bioregion, is maintained as distinct from its sister species, R. pulchella, from south-eastern Australian rainforests; both species are Australian endemics. Reinstatement of R. allisonii from synonymy, under R. retroflexa, is supported by molecular data and morphological characters, including the absence of triradiate trigones on leaf-lobe cell walls, the apex of lobules on primary shoots not being turned outwards, the oblong-elliptic female bracts, and the perianths having a pronounced wing. Reinstatement of R. weymouthiana, from synonymy under R. retroflexa, is also supported by molecular data and morphological characters, including the presence of a single low dome-shaped papilla over each leaf-lobe cell, and the large imbricate lobules on primary shoots. R. weymouthiana occurs in Tasmania and New Zealand, whereas R. allisonii is a New Zealand endemic. Australian R. retroflexa exhibits differentiation into epiphytic and rheophytic morphs, interpreted as ecotypes. Australian individuals, comprising both epiphytic and rheophytic morphs, are monophyletic and nested within a clade containing individuals from other regions. R. novae-hollandiae is newly reported for the New Zealand Botanical Region, from Raoul Island in the Kermadecs. R. novae-hollandiae exhibits decoupling of morphological and molecular divergence, with Australian individuals forming two clades reflecting geography (a Wet Tropics bioregion clade and a south-eastern Rainforest clade). These clades exhibit equivalent levels of molecular divergence, as observed in R. pulchella and R. ocellata, but no morphological differences. Similar levels of molecular divergence were observed in trans-Tasman populations of R. tasmanica. The New Zealand endemic, R. plicata, is excluded from the Australian flora, and R. cuspidata replaces R. dentifolia for the New Zealand endemic species formerly known by both names.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2490 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
FANG YU ◽  
YAN-ZHOU ZHANG ◽  
CHAO-DONG ZHU ◽  
LI-HONG TU

Five species of Copidosomopsis from China are reviewed, keyed and illustrated. One new species, Copidosomopsis orientalis Yu & Zhang sp. nov. is described, and C. bohemicus (Hoffer), C. meridionalis Kazmi & Hayat and C. nacoleiae (Eady) are newly recorded from China. Photomicrographs are provided to illustrate morphological characters of the species.


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